From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git --version
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 15:29:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vu077ywmw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30605301516l782ad81dk5b11074e88db90a4@mail.gmail.com> (Paolo Ciarrocchi's message of "Wed, 31 May 2006 00:16:30 +0200")
"Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm confused by the following:
> paolo@Italia:~/git$ ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
> GIT_VERSION = 1.3.3.g2186
>
> paolo@Italia:~/git$ git --version
> git version 1.3.GIT
>
> Why git --version is not reporting the "full" version number?
There is a bit of chicken and egg problem involved. The build
procedure wants to have an already installed git to figure out
the "full" version number. If you are bootstrapping, make clean
and rebuild after you install git once would give you a git
binary that knows what version it is.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-30 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-30 22:16 git --version Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-05-30 22:29 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-05-31 18:58 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-05-31 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-31 19:13 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-05-31 19:20 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-05-31 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-31 19:30 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-05-31 19:32 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-05-31 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-31 19:43 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-05-31 19:49 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-05-31 19:56 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-05-31 20:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-31 20:08 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-05-31 20:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-31 20:19 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-05-31 19:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-31 19:26 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
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